History: Personal recollections and observations of General Nelson A. Miles embracing a brief view of the Civil War, or, From New England to the Golden Gate : and the story of his Indian campaigns, with comments on the exploration, development and progress of our great western empire: Table of contents

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Miles, Nelson Appleton, 1839-1925 / Personal recollections and observations of General Nelson A. Miles embracing a brief view of the Civil War, or, From New England to the Golden Gate : and the story of his Indian campaigns, with comments on the exploration, development and progress of our great western empire
(1896)

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           TABLE OF CONTENTS
                                  CHAPTER I.
                        IN NEWNA ENGLAND FIFTY YEARS AGO.
     PAGES
Purpose of This Book-The Sentiment of Country Universal-A Democracy Natural
        in Amnerica-The Change from Primitive Life to the Present, and the
Men
        WA ho Made it-Early New England Colonists-Influence of Climate-Mas-
        sachusetts-The Influence of New England Ideas in Our History-The
        Indian in New England - Life There Fifty Years Ago - The Author's
Youth
        and Ancestry-Stories and Their Effect Upon Inclination-Before the
        War-Earliest Military Training.. . . . . . . . . . . . . .      
    17-24
                                  CHAPTER II.
                              THE GREAT CIVIL WAR.
Thle Questiorns at Issue - Election of Abraham Lincoln -General Scott- Observations
        hle lating to the War - Raising a Company for the Union Service -Elected
        and Commissioned Captain -Takes the Field as First Lieutenant -Detailed
        to Staff Duty - Various Promotions - The Second Army Corps - The
Grand
        Record of the Army of the Potomac.. . . . . . . . . . . . .     
    25-35
                                 CHAPTER III.
                         LAST SCENES OF THE GREAT WAR.
Battle of Nashville - Marching Through Georgia - Five Forks - Storming the
Works
        at Petersburg - Fall of Richmond - Scenes in Camp - Correspondence
Be-
        tw een the Two Commanders - Appomattox - Joy of the Soldiers - Death
of
        the President-What We Won and Consequences of Failure-The Army
        I)isbanded-Author's Appointment as Colonel and Brevet Major-General
        United States Army.                   . .   . .. . . . .       .
    36-51
                                 CHAPTER IV.
                            OUR ACQUIRED TERRITORY.
(nioniza"tionX P- Results of the French and Indian War-The Louisiana
Purchase-
        Acquisition of Territory from Mexico -Explorations of Lewis and Clark
-
        Fl1enlont's Explorations - Surveys for Trans-continental Railways
- Results
        of the War in its Effect on the Development of the West-Construction
of
        the. Trans-continental Railw ay - Rapid Settlement of the West -
Pitts-
        ))trg - Chicago -St. Louis - Eads - Fort Leavenworth - Emigrant Trains
-
        Hunting Expedition - The Doniphan Expedition.                   
    52-63
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